I interviewed @byroncoley.bsky.social about archiving Steve Albini's belongings, their lifelong friendship, trying to put a price point on someone's memories, and what our belongings reveal about us for @pitchfork.com

how about a movie where the “making of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert” cinematic universe fuses with that of the “making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska?

should be a law that says this tune has to appear in every fall mix youtu.be/p0n9YEARMwg?...

Man, I remember hopping on the phone with Kaleb for this piece and thinking, "Oh you write almost exactly how you talk." He was so thoughtful & cared about his truth, his blue and funny vision of the world. Loved this piece, one of his many great accomplishments in life pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I like all kinds of music

Love this, from @markrichardson.bsky.social : “Was the revolution in sound I perceived happening entirely in my own mind?” open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

feeling good about the car armrest bin curation

I wrote a little newsletter about Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

still bangs

crazy good piece by @amyphillips.bsky.social about teenage rock’n’roll dreams and creating building the world you want to inhabit on the walls of your childhood bedroom defector.com/living-throu...

Modest Mouse “Every Penny Fed Car” is a miracle youtu.be/97MhsQfwXAg?...

v. excited to read Jayson Greene’s new novel

if you have a friend named Paul a couple times a year you have to say to them “Hey Paul, hey Paul, hey Paul, let’s have a ball”—they expect it

Scrawl's "Ready" is a miracle www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRzY...

emo(ish) songs I like 1 - for aesthetic and demographic reasons I never much cared for emo, enjoy a few things but much actively repels me. Love this song tho youtu.be/BuOWtICv0tE?...

my favorite Beach House song & when this comes up I tend to listen to it 3-4 times in a row. the vocal performance is pure guts, Legrand straining against limitations, would be an interesting song to cover, I think www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9wK...

stoked to read @jeremygordon.bsky.social’s new novel

for the p4k Sunday review I wrote about Movietone’s magical The Blossom Filled Streets pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Eye and Ear Control: Watching Albert Ayler David Grundy watches recently unearthed footage of saxophonist Albert Ayler in concert from 1966. www.thewire.co.uk/video/eye-an...

this improvised Keith Jarrett piece from his standards trio sounds like a tune from a lost Peanuts special, with Jack DeJohnette playing the lead instrument youtu.be/_FJQWN6ijio?...

v. interesting interview w/ the guy who shot the Blood on the Tracks cover...

this is how David Lynch described life after encountering transcendental meditation—probably the best sales pitch for a spiritual system I’ve ever heard

remembering when The Elephant Man was in theaters and this spot was running on TV. the source of many nightmares and I’d have to leave the room when it came on youtu.be/2SupMFBxenw?...

David Lynch taught me how to think about art that takes an unconventional shape—learning to trust your responses and intuition, starting with your emotional reaction and working outward. he steered away from “decoding” his work and encouraged people to move beyond “I don’t get it,” opened up so much

great record, investigated her music after reading about her in @annkpowers.bsky.social Joni Mitchell book. this is often available cheap, worth picking up

example of a song where the drum arrangement is an absolutely perfect fit for the song’s emotional meaning, framing every line just so—probably helps that the drummer wrote the lyrics youtu.be/ZiRuj2_czzw?...

given his stature, it’s remarkable how cheap used copies of Bob Dylan’s albums are. easy to find an original pressing of, say, John Wesley Harding for less than $10. his music doesn’t fit easily into the “lifestyle vinyl” trend I guess.

on the shortlist for most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard youtu.be/-BFNX78vZE8?...

was listening to this CD quietly early this morning, came out 25 years ago. this track made an enormous impression on me in 1999, one of those moments where you instantly love something and expend a great deal of energy to hear more like it www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaR...

this came out 20 years ago in November, such were the vagaries of year-end voting I submitted it as my No. 1 track of 2005—holds up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Bm...

Closest Boredoms came to a Xmas album youtu.be/V__1KLwDer8?...

the John Zorn->Taylor Swift connection

put my order in for Evan’s round-up w/ a bunch of great writers—more music writing that looks good on paper

if you've ever thought to yourself, gee, i wish there was a music publication where i could still read things like a searching and beautiful @markrichardson.bsky.social piece on Fennesz's latest album, i have good news for you www.hearingthings.co/fennesz-mosa...

weed is legal and a new Zeppelin documentary is premiering on 70-foot screens: this is the world I dreamed of when I was 19 youtu.be/ZUTLOltEOf8?...

makes me happy to see people remembering Olivia Tremor Control, even on such a sad occasion. there were periods where I wasn’t sure that would happen, seemed possible they’d be a “you had to be there” kinda thing, glad their music continues to be discovered

thinking about Olivia Tremor Control, RIP Will Cullen Hart

next few weeks reading and listening sorted

as a writer I go back and forth between thinking new ideas are always coming & it’s fine to throw them out there randomly vs. thinking they should be held close and nourished b/c their number is finite

a lovely late fall day in the Catskills

look for someone to make an enormous amount of money marketing bottled water with added fluoride. maybe call it “Smile”

love this potted history/analysis of tiny desk-style streaming video from @ericdharvey.bsky.social, and not just b/c we talked about it at length a few months ago ericdharvey.substack.com/p/last-month...

recently wrote a newsletter about a Cat Power performance I couldn’t stop thinking about open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

been thinking about David Berman, wrote a newsletter open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

I wrote an appreciation of a few of the wonderful people I worked with at Pitchfork open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

I started an occasional newsletter recently, a place for personal essay-type stuff and stray thoughts open.substack.com/pub/markrich...

listening to the great Fairport Convention album Unhalfbricking—has three then-new Bob Dylan songs, and weird to remember how many bands from that era thought “Does Dylan have any new songs?” when it came time to make a record

beautiful drone piece from a few years ago that I’ve been spinning back, helps me forget about my troubles for 19 minutes and 35 seconds youtu.be/PTWVInCSGSs?...

reviewed the Romy album out tomorrow, which is one of my favorite records of the year so far www.wsj.com/arts-culture...